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amaliazeichnerin

Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa are building solutions that richer nations could learn from

Interesting blog post.

apolladay

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

#top surgery scars are the biggest #next largest is on the back of my hand from a dog bite.... or on the back of my calf from a dog scratch

samreich

who did this to me

vivitur-moritur

the sewing machine is a delicate breed of horse

iamjaynaemarie

Dangers of working on a set.

That’s what I said.

seawitchkaraoke

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

mikkeneko

ithinkitsdashing

#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

ophidahlia

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

oatmealdiva

this is genuinely how i react everytime i see paul robalino

witchesversuspatriarchy

Same

allthefoolmine

Reblog if you too do not want to share outside with them.

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 7,532 species of frog in the world, ok?!

werewolf-transgenderism

great news! 7,556 species of frog in the world, ok?!

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry, now there are 7,576 species of frog in the world, ok?!

werewolf-transgenderism

excellent news! 7,591 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

werewolf-transgenderism

guess what! 7,624 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry, 7,645 species of frog on planet earth, ok? peace and love on planet autism

werewolf-transgenderism

great news! 7,653 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,670 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

new year new frogs! 7,678 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,683 species of frog in the world, ok? ❤️

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,698 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don’t cry. 7,701 species of frog in the world, ok?

wandering-aloneo-o

@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?

markscherz

95 at present, more on the way :)

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 95 species of frog discovered by tumblr's own frog scientist dr. mark scherz, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,758 species of frog in the world, yippee!

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,806 species of frog in the world, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don’t cry. 7,817 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet autism 💖

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,836 species of frog in the world, ok?

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,864 species of frog in the world, yay!

werewolf-transgenderism

hey don't cry. 7,935 species of frog in the world, yippeeeeee

werewolf-transgenderism

HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️

necromancelena

Die temu ad die

necromancelena

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

chef-boy-ar-girl

It accidentally is latin

saanah

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

santapau

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

qqueenofhades

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

nudistcat

@theshitpostcalligrapher

sekkitsune

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

qqueenofhades

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

sekkitsune

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

qqueenofhades

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

laurenthemself

how dare you say we error on the scribes

jtimu

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

enki2

hylianengineer

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

copperbadge

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

charaznablespeteevee

#my mom and aunt were both accountants before computers were really available #they used to do this shit by hand #they used to take bathroom breaks together and bring some of what they were working on in with them.

pterribledinosaurdrawings

and so I did!

pterribledinosaurdrawings

#i wanna see the collection and how they differ

Say no more, here they all are! (I post about them more on my sewing & art blog @vincentbriggs, though I'm afraid I haven't got proper tags for each individual machine.)

c. 1885 White VS2, made in the U.S. Basic straight stitch treadle in good working order. It came to me very dirty and needed a lot of cleaning and a new drive belt & bobbin winder tire.

Singer 15-91, made in Canada sometime between 1936-48. This was my first one, which I bought refurbished when I moved out of my parents house, since it's pretty similar to the one I grew up using. It came with a knee lever but after a few years the speed control box failed and I replaced it with a foot pedal.

1945 Bernina KL 105, made in Switzerland. This is my most recent acquisition and I haven't started on the cleaning & refurbishing yet, but I'm excited to use it! It's a treadle that has backstitch and drop feed.

Gimbels department store branded Singer 15 clone, made in Japan. No idea what the date is, but the style of the logo makes me think maybe 50's? All cleaned and stitching again, though I still need to put the motor back on. The case was too rotten to save, so I've got to learn how to make a new one. Being a 15 clone, it's extremely similar to my Singer 15, but there are quite a lot of differences in the smaller external parts and it has a much better drop feed system.

1958 Singer 99k, made in Scotland. All cleaned and adjusted, and my father helped rewire it, but I still need to finish fixing up the wooden case. It wasn't so bad as the previous one, but it's in no condition to stain so I'm going to paint it. This one's something of a foster kitten, as I've promised it to a friend.

1964 Singer 185J, made in Canada. I've cleaned it up and replaced the missing bobbin plate, but I need to make a new wooden case for this one too because the plastic case it came in was all cracked and warped. It's the same basic machine as the 99k, just in a more space age style shape. The bobbin winder is more stripped down, but other than that the workings are identical.

1970 Pfaff 360, made in Germany. This was the second machine I got, and it was meant to be a backup because this was when my 15-91 speed control was acting up. The pebbled greige paint job is horrendously fugly, but it's a splendid piece of engineering. I still need to get around to taking apart and unsticking one particular area, but if I'm successful in that it'll be able to do zig zag, plus a variety of other fancy stitches controlled by that nice stack of cams on the left.

The 2 treadles were given to me, the 15-91 was bought refurbished as mentioned, and the other 4 electric machines were thrifted.

As you can see from observing the shape of the newer ones compared to the older ones, sewing machines are born with a large store of baby fat and they become scrawnier as they age.

#my dream but also very much my father-in-law #i still can't wait to use the antique industrial singer he gave me (it's on a modern industrial motor but the head is nearly 100 yo

bbprincessheather

queerliblib

on it 🫡 🌈 📚

certifiedlibraryposts

Certified Library Post

wileycap

ok I'm sure this has been said but Sokka striding into a fucking Fire Nation school as Wang Fire is incredible & has swagger, considering that the origin for Wang is "King" in Old Chinese. I know most of this website is usamerican, so, I'll try to put this in a slightly lopsided, mostly vibes-based, and thoroughly unserious analogy:

The year is 1968, the height of the Vietnam War. A young Vietnamese dude and his sister walk into a conservative Christian school in Texas, United States to meet the principal. Not even batting an eyelash, the guy goes "Howdy, my name's President America, this is my wife Miss America, and we're here about our son, Jimmy."

(Later, it turns out that Jimmy is Jesus, and he threw a hippie party in a cave for the school kids. He was enrolled for two days.)

pseudomantis

What the fuck

astarlingdiscovery

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

[x] [x]

bogleech

Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.

ceanothusspinosus

foot to head ratio off the charts

isuggestlandback

On "mâtinawêkisikâw" and how to say Saturday in Cree

"Did you know the name for Saturday is mātinawēkisikāw. This term comes from the y dialect. mātinamākīwin is the act of rationing food. sharing, distributing food offering, allotment, distribution, the act of offering or giving.

As the 7 day calendar became popularized amongst the plains a certain day became common. These were the days when the buffalo were gone, the people were starving. On Saturdays food was rationed at the forts.

Ration days were not a thing for northern dialects as the food supply came from other sources. Growing up, I would ask why Saturday was different from the rest of the weeks. If Monday to Friday were the first day to the fifth day, why wasn’t Saturday the sixth day. My th dialect northern people didn’t have an answer. Years later I would realize northern Manitoba people (n dialect) preferred to call Saturday nikotwāsik-kisikāw meaning the sixth day. When I started studying indigenous history in university and discovering how all our indigenous languages were oral languages it all started to make sense. It made sense how aggressive assimilation impacted southern Cree people first before colonial practices were directed to northern people. It made sense how language loss was happening at alarming rates in the south, amongst the y dialect. So in response y dialect speakers pushed back against language loss more aggressively. People in the plains Cree community pioneered the writing system. Many of the terms like mātinawēkisikāw, Saturday, were adopted into the written material.

Northern people, until the 80’s were very much fluent and did not make efforts to write down the language as the plains. Language revitalization efforts started in the 70’s and earlier down south as it became apparent culture loss was taking place.

As Indian control of education came about in the late 70’s all of a sudden there was a demand to teach Cree in schools. The only material available at that time was y dialect material. So certain terms came to me as a student sitting in my classroom like the term for Saturday. Cree class became a thing in my generation, I was about 11 in grade 5 when we had our first class. Older students were never formally introduced to Cree class until this time, everyone learned from everyone else until then, orally. In my northern community, syllabics were common amongst the old people. However, in the 80’s many kids didn’t go to residential school with this movement for Indians to teach their own and community devolution. The 80’s also saw this shift of Indian people taking on their own administrative matters locally.

The rush of Cree materials was abit of a free for all for the most part. Those fortunate enough to have a teacher be trained in standardized writing like SRO produced a generation of students that could read and understand the materials. Some communities if not most communities basically hired fluent speakers and much of the materials taught were either phonetic or a personal style comfortable to the teacher. However, the materials developed in the south would become the norm.

Some of the differences in the material taught in class vs the local terms sometimes confused students but only for a short while. Terms like the months of the year were slightly different. An example is the month of February and March.

Firstly, the months are named after observations taking place in nature. Secondly, months had different names but most folks settled on the most common terms. Up north the eagle didn’t come home until March. The name mikisiwipīsim, eagle moon was March. Down south, where it warms up a month earlier, the eagle arrives in February. For southern Cree, the goose starts to arrive in March which is why it’s called niskipīsim, the goose moon. And by this time I’m sure you realize the goose doesn’t come to northern areas until April.

In education we call this locally adapting the curriculum. You take what’s been produced and make necessary changes to reflect the local needs. This is why it’s important to bridge the gap between young teachers and elders, if you’re fortunate to have elders that still speak. If you don’t, please ensure you provide context to why things are the way they are when you can. Learning about history can be just as fascinating as learning about your own language.

Hope this helps."

-Simon Bird, Cree language keeper and educator